Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b2f23230724f0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-03-02 00:45:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e555c19d710230c400418e8b5834ae7c SHA-1: cb299998d4cd2699c259eca173278ac2b4780479 SHA-256: 96b2f23230724f0e47f3b6b3871cd101b8227ffd93e38210925c8cfa84bd87a7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards techniques used to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=the+sly+fox+and+the+little+red+hen+story+book PDF link annotation
    • https://kowexemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872048/2436433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejejuwefosewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040570/xafopirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vavetoros.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854671/vavafamijexofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazesuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379506/netejapapawomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xepidenad.scienceontheweb.net/john_deere_750_tractor_front_weights.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepomujotopulog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873529/warebisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tososite.onlinewebshop.net/can_i_use_my_tracfone_as_a_mobile_hotspot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gedimuta/petofadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vatosolikijike/mellanni_bed_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jisijuvod.myartsonline.com/is_craftmaster_water_heater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/najubu/pokixekitonabavidefujamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupagerirawax.myartsonline.com/nortel_networks_phone_manual_t7208_change_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57B 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 4cbbaaee65635cf9a01c245032aba23f0d8c22f734a0ae0d920bf3475169a406
font_01_sfnt_off0000e795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE795 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 080fe6471b539307fc0e5b5be18c8a011fc65ccfb05ef79ad55a0d92e018ff29

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